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let us give thanks. let us feel overwhelmed with grateful awe, but let's us do so with wides wide open and hands ready to do all the work there is left to do. that's our show for today. thank you to my guests. thank you to you at home for watching. i will see you next saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. until then, from all of us here, have a happy and socially conscious thanksgiving. coming up, "weekends with alex witt." ♪ i'd like to thank eating right, whole grain, multigrain cheerios! mom, are those my jeans? [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multigrain cheerios [ birds chirping ] are you sure you can fit in there? [ chuckles ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] around view monitor with bird's-eye view. nice work. [ male announcer ] introducing the all-new nissan pathfinder. it's our most innovative pathfinder ever. nissan. innovation that excites. ♪ who have used androgel 1%, there's big news. presenting androgel 1.62%. both are used to treat me
let us give thanks. let us feel overwhelmed with grateful awe, but let's us do so with wides wide open and hands ready to do all the work there is left to do. that's our show for today. thank you to my guests. thank you to you at home for watching. i will see you next saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. until then, from all of us here, have a happy and socially conscious thanksgiving. coming up, "weekends with alex witt." ♪ i'd like to thank eating right, whole grain, multigrain...
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to have a president who represents us, who speaks to us and who fight for us. >> it's an interesting point here because you know, one of the things that allows the president to have not only an electoral college victory but a popular vote victory is that folks in plays like new york and louisiana and so-called safe red and blue states nonetheless showed up to vote for the president even though at the presidential level their vote didn't count in the same way. yet, it makes a big difference if he wins with a popular mandate and an electoral college win. >> you're absolutely right in your opening remarks, people are not going to be denied the right to vote. people are not going to be denied -- when you start talking about voter suppression and all going on, people said we're going to show we're going to stand and vote. we're not going to let people take away our rights. it is about issues. people are spectacular the. whether you're poor, some people think that poor people are not smart people, they're very smart and understand there is -- >> they understand their interests and who repr
to have a president who represents us, who speaks to us and who fight for us. >> it's an interesting point here because you know, one of the things that allows the president to have not only an electoral college victory but a popular vote victory is that folks in plays like new york and louisiana and so-called safe red and blue states nonetheless showed up to vote for the president even though at the presidential level their vote didn't count in the same way. yet, it makes a big...
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it helps us to see things that are invisible to us. walmart is good because it creates low prices. yet, walmart also create a circumstance where taxpayers are subsidizing walton's billion dollars of profits. is this the moment when we start to see the ship turn. >> absolutely. i think the key has been throughout the economic pain that the american people have been feeling since the great recession. the conversation has really lurched between because of occupy, the role of wall street, the corporations and when the right has the control of the conversation, it's really a conversation about taxes and spending as if that's what's making the american people have less and less take home pay. as if that's making a third of all the jobs in the country below wage jobs. i really think that the more that we can have a conversation about the employer role, it takes business, it takes government, it takes individuals to sort of create a contract in the country. employees simply walked away from that bargain. we have not had accountability at all. >> we're with demos. you tried to quantify and
it helps us to see things that are invisible to us. walmart is good because it creates low prices. yet, walmart also create a circumstance where taxpayers are subsidizing walton's billion dollars of profits. is this the moment when we start to see the ship turn. >> absolutely. i think the key has been throughout the economic pain that the american people have been feeling since the great recession. the conversation has really lurched between because of occupy, the role of wall street, the...
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used it at a stump speech. most americans believe it is appropriate to ask the wealthy to pay more as we go forward. because we need revenue, we need to support these programs. as richard said, the public clearly wants, wants medicare, wants medicaid. we have to find the money for it. where will we find the money? we should ask the wealthy to pay a little more like they did during the clinton era. that, i think, is a very clear message from this election. >> i often felt, maya, if it was a mandate at all, it was to fix voting. one wft things we heard is early on, there was enthusiasm gap and the part of what closed that enthusiasm gap were the voter suppression efforts themselves. people saying wait a minute, like or dislike the president, you are not going to take away my ability and right to vote. do you think that there is room here for the president to swiftly move forward on changing the way that we vote in this country? >> it's a really important question, melissa. i can't agree with you more. i think thi
used it at a stump speech. most americans believe it is appropriate to ask the wealthy to pay more as we go forward. because we need revenue, we need to support these programs. as richard said, the public clearly wants, wants medicare, wants medicaid. we have to find the money for it. where will we find the money? we should ask the wealthy to pay a little more like they did during the clinton era. that, i think, is a very clear message from this election. >> i often felt, maya, if it was...